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mccparty
Interesting to hear Jan Wenner really push him on his answers. I don't think Jagger would let most interviewers do this. They've obvisiously known each other for a long time.
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mccparty
Interesting to hear Jan Wenner really push him on his answers. I don't think Jagger would let most interviewers do this. They've obvisiously known each other for a long time.
Yup, since 1967 or 1968.
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Marmalade
Thank you very much for posting that link, treaclefingers.
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treaclefingers
Great article from 1995, the Jan Wenner interview:
[www.jannswenner.com]
Interesting reading this so many years later, particularly when hearing what he says then and how things don't seem that much different than now.
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lettingitbleed
Great read! It's reasons like this interview that have kept me checking in with IORR for all these years.
Thanks for posting...it killed plenty of time...about the whole afternoon!
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lettingitbleed
Great read! It's reasons like this interview that have kept me checking in with IORR for all these years.
Thanks for posting...it killed plenty of time...about the whole afternoon!
It is quite a long article but I found very worth the read. I did find it odd they didn't really get into Bill Wyman leaving, given that had happened fairly recently.
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rocker1
The Stones have certainly benefitted over the years from gobs of fawning press in Rolling Stone magazine, and from Jann Wenner in particular. Unfortunately, I think Jann's over-the-top suck-upage has damaged his magazine's reputation to a degree, and also hasn't done the Stones and Mick any favors in, say, the last 20 or so years. Good press from Jann/Rolling Stone magazine is greeted with an eye-roll and skepticism. And understandably so. Goddess in the Doorway: the first 5-star album since Automatic for the People. Uh, huh...yeah, right. Jann, why don't you just simply ASK Mick if you can suck his dick?
Still, this is a nice interview. There's no way Jann would allow it to be anything but a piece that shows Mick in absolutely the most flattering light. And it's nice that there is a rock rag that still treats a grizzled old veteran (and Mick was that even way back in '95) with the respect shown in this article.
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rocker1
The Stones have certainly benefitted over the years from gobs of fawning press in Rolling Stone magazine, and from Jann Wenner in particular. Unfortunately, I think Jann's over-the-top suck-upage has damaged his magazine's reputation to a degree, and also hasn't done the Stones and Mick any favors in, say, the last 20 or so years. Good press from Jann/Rolling Stone magazine is greeted with an eye-roll and skepticism. And understandably so. Goddess in the Doorway: the first 5-star album since Automatic for the People. Uh, huh...yeah, right. Jann, why don't you just simply ASK Mick if you can suck his dick?
Still, this is a nice interview. There's no way Jann would allow it to be anything but a piece that shows Mick in absolutely the most flattering light. And it's nice that there is a rock rag that still treats a grizzled old veteran (and Mick was that even way back in '95) with the respect shown in this article.
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DragonSky
The true brilliance of the interview is what Mick can/does remember. A great read, possibly the best Jagger interview ever in terms of actually having Mick say something.
Great post treacle! I have two copies of this issue but finding it online is always a plus!
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treaclefingers
Great article from 1995, the Jan Wenner interview:
[www.jannswenner.com]
Interesting reading this so many years later, particularly when hearing what he says then and how things don't seem that much different than now.
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24FPS
It all reminds me of the Some Girls tour and the absolute blasting the group was getting in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine. The album had gotten an awful review and the headline for the tour was SHATTERED, and not in a good way. Reports came back that Jagger was pissed and refusing Rolling Stone reporters access. Suddenly there was a reassessment of the album in the magazine and things smoothed out. It's almost like there was a punk rebellion by the younger staff against the Stones and Jann had to step in and kiss a little ass to get back in the good graces of the group.
The Stones were still enduring the nightmare of Keith's heroin bust in Toronto and things were very fragile. It was probably the massive sales of the album and the worldwide smash of 'Miss You' and the surprising popularity of 'Beast of Burden' that got the band through the summer of '78. Then they almost blew it with Jagger's terrible, croaked out performance on Saturday Night Live, that left people cold with his creepy licking of Ron Wood's face. Wood looked obviously uncomfortable. Allegedly Jagger sounded so bad because he partied all week with the likes of Belushi. (Coke is notoriously bad on the throat). Anyone who has seen the rehearsals on bootleg know they band sounded great earlier in the week.
The whole stress of that time with Keith seems to have laid the foundation for the Jagger/Richards split. You can still see the closeness on the '75 and '76 tours, but after the group stood by Keith through the '77 bust until the '79 Concert For the Blind in Canada, it looks like a real distancing took place between Mick and Keith. And, with the subsequent good reviews the Stones always got in Rolling Stone afterward, it looks like Mick and Jann got a lot closer.